UK and Irish reviews

’This beautifully written narrative alternates between Stella’s contemporary story set in London and Julia’s Edwardian one, set in East Devon and London.
Separated by time and distance, our two protagonists are both dealing with debilitating grief. Stella is in therapy, discussing the death of her mother, the emptiness she feels and how she has no idea where to go from here. Julia is mourning her oldest daughter, Helena, finding the loss unbearable and desperately seeking solitude. Stella’s mother died of cancer and she has pretty much no relationship with her distant father. Helena was a photographer who died soon after returning home from an expedition in the rainforests of Sri Lanka.
Stella and Julia’s individual meditations on their deep losses combine to form an emotionally intelligent, thought-provoking portrait of grief and the mother-daughter bond. It’s raw and compelling and brilliant on letting life in and finding slivers of hope in the darkest situations. It stayed with me long after I finished it.’
— Sara Lawrence, ‘The BEST debut novels of the month: Isaac by Curtis Garner, The White Flower by Charlotte Beeston, City of Laughter by Temim Fruchter’, Daily Mail, 8 November

‘The White Flower is a beautifully and sensitively written meditation on the bond between a mother and daughter and on grief, written after the author lost her own mother… Exquisite.’ — Paul Fulcher, Goodreads